Month: May 2017

The Lithuanian parliament’s Commission for Ethics and Procedures found on Wednesday that three parliamentarians of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), including its chairman and health minister, had violated the Statute of the Seimas. […]

Police officers who a week ago detained men with airsoft guns in a forest near Nemenčinė, in the district of Vilnius, responded appropriately to the situation, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense, said on Wednesday. […]

The Parliament’s Special Investigation Commission is going to present an assessment if there are grounds to initiate impeachment process against Social Democrat Mindaugas Bastys, who is suspected to have non-transparent ties with Russian actors. As […]

Jurgita Petrauskienė, the Minister for Education and Higher learning in Parliament, on Tuesday presented the new proposal for the optimization plan regarding state universities. The optimization plan seems to centre on the aim to leave […]

Cyber attacks against information systems of Lithuania’s state institutions were committed by three underage individuals, including two citizens of Lithuania and a Dane, the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office said. […]

Some 908,200 persons were paid at least one type of pension in Lithuania at the end of 2016, which is one in three residents of Lithuania, the country’s statistics agency said in its preliminary report. […]

The impeachment commission for Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Lithuanian parliament’s Social Democratic Party group, should Wednesday vote on the decision whether there are grounds for initiating impeachment against the MP. […]

Lithuania’s 2016 per capita alcohol consumption figures released by the country’s statistics office are lower than those published by the World Health Organization, but Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that this does not substantially change the situation. […]

India welcomes Lithuanian companies to explore its markets, said India‘s Minister of State (MOS) for External Affairs, Mr M.J. Akbar, in a meeting with business leaders of Lithuania. The exchange took place at the prestigious Confederation of Lithuanian Industry, in Vilnius on 26 May. The Confederation, which comprises 3,000 companies engaged in over 50 sectors, is headed by Mr Robertas Dargis, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country. Lithuanian business is looking for new markets beyond Europe. […]

The formation of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battlegroup in Lithuania was completed with the arrival of around 200 Norwegian serviceman and servicewoman in Kaunas Airport on Monday evening, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. […]

The government has not yet made its decision on the use of 13 million euros paid by Alstom to the country as ordered by a London court in a case in which the French group’s Swedish energy unit Alstom Power was accused of corruption in Lithuania. […]

Lithuania’s legal alcohol consumption per person aged 15 years and over last year amounted to 13.2 liters, down by 0.8 liters from 14 liters in 2015, according to preliminary figures from the country’s statistics office. […]

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